He was portrayed by the late Joseph Cotten, who also portrayed Drew Bayliss in Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte.Ĭharlie is a handsome, charming man who is liked and admired by virtually everyone he knows. He is a charming serial killer of elderly, wealthy widows who provokes the suspicion of his niece and namesake, Charlotte 'Charlie' Newton. Are they human or are they fat, wheezing animals, hmm? And what happens to animals when they get too fat and too old?Ĭharles Oakley, best known as Uncle Charlie, is the main antagonist of Alfred Hitchcock's 1943 film Shadow of a Doubt. And what do the wives do, these useless women? You see them in the hotels, the best hotels, every day by the thousands, drinking the money, eating the money, losing the money at bridge, playing all day and all night, smelling of money, proud of their jewelry but of nothing else, horrible, faded, fat, greedy women. And then they die and leave their money to their wives, their silly wives.

The cities are full of women, middle-aged widows, husbands dead, husbands who've spent their lives making fortunes, working and working.

Shadow of a Doubt Uncle Charlie